November 2018 Auction List – Closes at 5pm on Wednesday 14th November (lots closing in order, with a 30 second interval from this time) • Should you wish to bid via email rather than the live bidding facility please email us at [email protected] by 4pm on Wednesday 14th November. • If you are downloading this list early in the sale, please note that many further pictures will be added to the site in due course, and that the final lot descriptions occasionally change (saleroom notices), and that the description on the live website will always take precedent. Medals to Sell? – Why not email us at [email protected] to see if we can help - cheap commission rates, wide exposure, and no fees should items not sell! 1. 1914-15 Star named to 2nd Lieutenant W. Forsyth, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. William Forsyth, killed as a Lieutenant with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 1st April 1916, aged 27, the son of William and Jesse Forsyth of ‘Lossie’, Roman Road, Bearsden, Glasgow, and is buried at Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension. Good very fine £60-80 2. British War Medal named to 2nd Lieutenant E.W. Standerwick. Lieutenant Edwin William Standerwick was killed in action on 20th April 1918 whilst serving with 7th Battalion, Essex Regiment. The son of Edwin and Harriet Standerwick he is buried at Gonnehem British Cemetery. He was killed during the capture of Riez-Du-Vinage, the Regimental History states ‘At dawn the next morning (19th) wrote an Officer, ‘A Hun was seen walking down the village street, whistling, by one of the posts, and he was collected. Then an officer with a little white flag and one of our men who had been captured also walked down the street, so we collected them. This caused Major Aldworth, who commanded ‘B’ Company to investigate the condition of affairs in the village, and it was then found to be full of Germans’. The Essex were immediately sent in to sieze Riez, but the enemy had also taken alarm and there was hand to hand fighting all day long among the ruins of the houses, the Germans having collected in the cellars. There were heavy casualties. Captain J.G.H. Kennefick, Leiutenants L.C. Gladden, 2nd Lieutenants J. Hayhurst and E.W. Standerwick were killed. Over 200 of the enemy were killed and 50 taken prisoners – altogether a gallant exploit, for which Major Aldworth deservedly won the D.S.O. and eleven other members of the Battalion well earned decorations. During the engagement the combatants were so close that the Major made lively use of his fists. On the evening of the 21st the Battalion, was relieved by the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, proceeding to a position north of the village, with ‘D’ Company.’ Nearly extremely fine £60-80 3. Victory Medal named to 2nd Lieutenant C. Newton. 2nd Lieutenant Cecil Newton, 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, died on 15th September 1916, aged 24. The son of Mr and Mrs. William Newton of 3 James Place, Leith, Edinburgh, he is buried at Adanac Miltiary Cemetery, Miraumont. On 15th September the Battalion were attacking in the area of Martinpuich and along Push Alley (The Battalion War Diary notes). Good very fine £50-60 4. Victory Medal named to Lieutenant N.D. Bayly. Lieutenant Noel Douglas Bayly, 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards was killed in action on 27th November 1917. The only son of Annie Lilla Bayly (nee Douglas), of 3 St Tite Street, Chelsea, London and the late Major Henry Bayly of the Gordon Highlanders, he is buried at Anneux British Cemetery. With an approximately A4 sized copy picture of Bayly in uniform, copy war diaries and copy papers, including a witness statement as to the circumstances of his death by Sergeant P. Kinsella, 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards ‘Lieut Bayly was killed 9.30 in Bourlon Wood. I made sure to look at him after being hit in the head and I am quite confident that he was dead.’ Also included is a copy of a letter informing his wife that his grave had been moved after the war, he had originally been buried in a small grave west of Fontaine Notre Dame, before being moved into Anneux British Cemetery as part of the agreement between the British, French and Belgian authorities to concentrate graveyards with less than 40 graves into bigger cemeteries. Nearly extremely fine £60-80 5. Victory Medal named to 2nd Lieutenant E.C.G. Lord. Second Lieutenant Eustace Charles Gabriel Lord, 1st Battalion, Irish Guards, killed in action 8th May 1918, the son of Major Charles Lord (Royal Welch Fusiliers) and of Mrs Lord of Bath. He is buried in Ayette British Cemetery. Good very fine £60-80 6. Victory Medal named to 2nd Lieutenant T.U. Royden. Second Lieutenant Thomas Utting Royden, killed in action 14th November 1916, aged 20, 19th Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps. The son of Thomas and Louisa Royden of 67, Willow Bank Road, Devonshire Park, Birkenhead, he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial. He had entered France on 8th July 1916, and was additionally entitled to a British War Medal. He had originally served with the 17th Battalion, King’s Liverpool Regiment, a Pals Battalion. Good very fine £50-60 7. Victory Medal named to Lieutenant F.D. Foley. Lieutenant Frederick David Foley of 26th Canadian Infantry (New Brunswick Regiment) was killed in action on 30th September 1916, and is remembered with honour on the Vimy Memorial. With copy service papers from the Canadian National Archives. A newspaper article appeared in the Daily Telegraph (St. Johns, New Brunswick) ‘Another gallant officer of a gallant unit the ‘Fighting 26th’ has fallen in action in the person of Lieut. Fred D. Foley, only son of Mr and Mrs Fred L. Foley of this city. An official telegram was received on Saturday night to the effect that the young officer has been killed in action on Sept. 30th’. Lieut. Foley was attending the University of New Brunswick when he realised that his country needed his services. At that time the 23rd Battery was being mobilised at Fredericton. He joined that unit and later, having an opportunity to secure a position on the staff of the 55th Battalion, he took a Lieutenant’s course at Halifax, and qualifying in a short time, and eventually was attached to that unit. He went to England with the 35th and a few months ago was transferred to the 26th Battalion and sent to France. Since that time he has shown through many severe engagements and on more than one occasion demonstrated that his clay was of the quality of which heroes are made. It was in the desperate engagement of Sept 30th when the New Brunswick unit won undying fame, that he fell ‘his face to the foe and his back to the field’ and on Saturday a sorrowing mother, father and three sisters learned of the death of an only son and brother. He was twenty three years of age in August last and at the University of New Brunswick was taking a course in civil engineering. He proved himself a clever student and few young men gave up civilian life for the king’s khaki won had brighter prospects in the profession which they had chosen. The sisters surviving are Violet, Lottie and Helen, all residing at home. Lieutenant Foley was very prominent in local athletics, and while attending High School here was a member of the football and the track team., the latter in 1912 winning the championship. He is mourned by many friends, although the young men of his ilk and courage are for the most part now shedding their tears on French soil where he fell. NEF £60-80 8. Memorial Plaque named to Leigh Pemberton. 2nd Lieutenant Leigh Pemberton, was killed in action aged 18 whilst serving with the 9th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps on 25th September 1915. The son of Algernon C. Pemberton of Stockers, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. He is buried at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Nearly extremely fine £110-130 9. Memorial Plaque named to Edward Offley Rouse Wakeman. Second Lieutenant Edward Offley Rouse Wakeman, 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards died aged 25 on the 16th May 1915, was killed in action at Festubert on 16th May 1915, he is noted as having been Mentioned in Despatches. The son of Sir Offley Wakeman, 3rd Bart, D.L., J.P., and Lady Wakeman of Yeaton-Peverey, Bomere Heath, Shrewsbury, and is buried in Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt. An obituary appeared in the Times of 21st May 1915. ‘Second Lieutenant Edward Offley Rouse Wakeman, 1st Grenadier Guards, younger son of Sir Offley Wakeman, Bt., was killed near La Bassee after leading his platoon in a successful attack on a ruined farm, being shot through the head by a sniper. His brother is Lieutenant in the same battalion and took part in the same engagement. Born in 1889, Mr. E.O.R. Wakeman was educated at Eton and St. John’s College, Oxford, where he was engaged in agricultural research. He was afterwards appointed a special investigator by the Board of Agriculture, resigning the position in December to join the Grenadier Guards. He went out to the front in April.’ His commanding officer wrote ‘He had been with us a short time but amply long enough for us and his company to realise that in him we have lost a man and a gallant officer, and a good comrade. He was killed in the way we all hope to be killed (if it is willed that we are to be), that is gallantly leading men of the Brigade of Guards.’ He was mentioned in Lord French’s Despatch of 30th November 1915 which appearing in the London Gazette of 1st January 1916.